Peter Abrahams Quotes

Joseph and his mother come from the black kings who were before the white man.

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• If I hadn't spent many years trying to be as compassionate as Mother Teresa, as positive a thinker as W. Clement Stone, as prolific a writer as Stephen King, and as good a speaker as many of the legends I have studied, I would not be as successful as I am today.

  

  Jack Canfield
  • Good
  • Trying
  • Mother

• I'm a TV junkie, so it's hard to choose just one. Currently I'm a slave to 'Black Sails,' 'Vikings,' 'Game of Thrones' and 'The Mindy Project.'

  

  Victoria Aveyard
  • Game
  • Black
  • Choose

• I realize now that I've hoped to be great - as an actress, as a mother - because I want to embody the greatness of women who didn't get to be all they could have been. Their dignity, their courage, and their brilliance make me strive to be better. They're a part of me.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Great
  • Women
  • Mother

• I think that it's hard enough being an adolescent and wanting so much to fit in with your peers, your schoolmates, and to erase any sign of difference, to be part of the group. And being biracial but also being black in a predominately white school marked me as different.

  

  Natasha Trethewey
  • Different
  • School
  • Think

• I love to drive in the Black Hills of Wyoming and South Dakota with Mount Rushmore as the central stop.

  

  Dana Perino
  • Love
  • Black
  • Stop

• When I was born, the doctor looked at my mother and said, 'Congratulations, you have an actor!'

  

  Sally Field
  • Mother
  • Born
  • Doctor

• To be black in the Baltimore of my youth was to be naked before the elements of the world.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • World
  • Black
  • Youth

• If your response to the first black president is to say they weren't born in this country... you might be a white supremacist.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Country
  • Black
  • Born

• Like all rice, black rice is great at absorbing flavours, but it's just as happy to act as a satiny bed for a poached egg, say, if you want to keep things simple.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Great
  • Happy
  • Black

• I always take off my makeup. My mother always told me to do this, and I never go to bed without doing it. I use a good moisturizer and Mario Badescu face wash.

  

  Felicity Jones
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  • Mother
  • Makeup

• She teaches me to be kind, punctual... and to stand up for myself. And when I think about it, aren't these things every mother should teach their daughter?

  

  Kaia Gerber
  • Mother
  • Kind
  • Daughter

• It takes ground activity to stimulate that Black vote.

  

  Eddie Bernice Johnson
  • Black
  • Vote
  • Activity

• When I was really small, my mother had difficulty keeping me dressed, as I liked to be naked! I definitely had very strong ideas on what I wanted to wear. My favourite look was always Action Man and Spiderman. Now though, I really like beautiful clothes.

  

  Cara Delevingne
  • Mother
  • Beautiful
  • Strong

• How do you tell your mother that you feel you're getting... old? If I'm... old, then what is she?

  

  Gail Parent
  • She
  • Mother
  • Feel

• I know my father and my mother, but beyond that I cannot go. My ancestry is blurred.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
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  • Father
  • Know

• My mother was physically and emotionally abusive. My father was an extremely cold man.

  

  S. E. Hinton
  • Mother
  • Father
  • Man

• My mother's husband Harry Bloom was a writer, a novelist, a reporter, and an anti-apartheid activist.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Mother
  • Husband
  • Bloom

• I never hated hip-hop. It became the new rock and roll. It became the biggest thing that Africans have ever done in the history of the Americas. Hip-hop put more black Americans on than anything before it. It fed more people. It allowed them to diversify into clothing lines and billion-dollar headphone companies.

  

  Eddie Murphy
  • People
  • Done
  • History

• I raised my sister. I was six when she was born. My mother had to make a living for herself and it was very hard, so I was looking after my sister, cooking and cleaning, and she had four jobs.

  

  Natalia Vodianova
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  • Mother
  • Sister

• My mother phones daily to ask, "Did you just try to reach me?" When I reply no, she adds, "So, if you're not too busy, call me while I'm still alive," . . . and hangs up.

  

  Erma Bombeck
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  • Mother
  • Busy

• At the age of eleven or thereabouts women acquire a poise and an ability to handle difficult situations which a man, if he is lucky, manages to achieve somewhere in the later seventies.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • Women
  • Age

• I know that the earth was new, but I didn't realize that it wasn't finished yet.

  

  Jane Roberts
  • Earth

• Joseph and his mother come from the black kings who were before the white man.

  

  Peter Abrahams
  • Mother
  • Black